Comparison

Planes Control! vs C172 Checklists

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Planes Control!

Guide aircraft to safe landings while avoiding hazards like storms and enemy attacks. Control over 60 different planes and helicopters across 13 challenging levels. Engage in aerial combat, fight wildfires, and manage air traffic in this addictive simulation game.

Highlights
  • Draw flight paths for aircraft
  • Avoid collisions and environmental hazards
  • Pilot over 60 types of planes and helicopters
  • Engage in aerial combat
  • Fight wildfires with air tankers
  • Navigate diverse and challenging levels
Features
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Take control of the sky and land your planes avoiding collisions and enemies. Guide your planes to ensure safe landing in this incredibly easy to learn yet surprisingly addictive game! Get an adrenalin rush while avoiding dangerous collisions, blazing storms and tornadoes, put out forest fire, get ready to repel an attack of enemy fighters and fight off an alien invasion! GAMEPLAY Planes Control is an game with simple controls. Draw lines with your fingers to determine the path each plane will follow as they find their way to land or to engage the enemy. This sounds easy? You will need fast fingers and strategy to manage all your planes and keep the sky under control. AIRCRAFTS You can navigate more than 60 different planes and helicopters including airliners, WWII fighters, jet planes and tilt rotors while playing Planes Control. Beside this, you will enjoy flying the SR-71 Black Bird (the world's fastest plane), the Antonov 225 (the largest aircraft in the world to fly multiple times) and famous combat planes like the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the F-14 Tomcat or the Apache AH-64 combat helicopter. LEVELS Planes Control has 13 awesome levels for mobile devices plus 6 new levels full of challenges created for tablets. More levels are on the way. • Earn your wings on a holiday resort, guiding your planes and helicopters. • Aerial combat! Shoot down hostile planes and helicopters over the scorching desert. • Air Tankers: Fight wildfires by dropping water with your planes and helicopters. • Storm Carrier landings: Command your military fighters and helicopters between the clouds and rain. • Navigate canyons in the Arizona’s Desert. • Successfully land your Aircraft during a tornado outbreak. • Night landings: Switch your landing lights on and find your way around the airfield. • Keep an eye on emergency calls and give priority landing to the planes that are running out of fuel. • Avoid cargo planes flying around your air space. • Land your planes in the middle of an alien invasion ! READY FOR A CHALLENGE? Earn new and different achievements in every level and challenge yourself to the limit. Please sit back, fasten your seatbelt and enjoy taking control of the sky – download Planes Control now! ⓘ For the latest inside information from Rarepixels: ► Like us at https://www.facebook.com/planesApp ► Visit us at http://rarepixels.com/games/planes-control/ ► Follow us at https://www.twitter.com/planes_control

About

C172 Checklists

This app provides paperless checklists for the C172 aircraft, specifically for those with G1000 glass cockpits. It's designed for flight simulator enthusiasts, offering an intuitive interface and dark mode for night use.

Highlights
  • C172 standard operating checklists
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Simple check-marking system
  • Supports any orientation
  • Dark Mode for night use
Features
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*** This app is for entertainment purposes only! We are not affiliated with Cessna or Textron or any airline *** The C172 Checklist app brings paperless checklists straight to your palm. Checklists are complete for generic standard operations of an C172 series aircraft. This app is ideally suited for pilots flying on Flight Simulators at home, especially for Flight Simulator add-ons such as C172. * The checklists contained in this app are for C172 with G1000 glass cockpits! * Features: - C172 standard operating checklists - Very easy and intuitive user interface - Simple check-marking system to mark completed items - Use in any orientation, our checklists adapt to your needs - Fly at night with Dark Mode

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
C172 Checklists4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Planes Control! at Free against C172 Checklists's $1.99. Planes Control! also leads on ratings volume (6.8K vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.5). C172 Checklists's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Planes Control! is free to download; C172 Checklists costs $1.99 up front. Planes Control! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. C172 Checklists asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Planes Control! against 4.7 for C172 Checklists. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Planes Control!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of C172 Checklists's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, C172 Checklists every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and August 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Planes Control! versus C172 Checklists: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!C172 Checklists
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings)4.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.8K — better3
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerLukasz Musial

Customer experience

Planes Control!

All ratings6,833 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews421 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral8.1%
Negative12.8%

C172 Checklists

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Planes Control!

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game freezes on iOS 14
  • High score not recorded correctly
  • Planes colliding off-screen
  • Notification bar interfering with gameplay

Requested features

5 requests
  • More level options and customization
  • Ability to pause and resume games
  • Improved tutorial and instructions
  • Difficulty settings for each level
  • Leaderboards and achievements

C172 Checklists

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Planes Control!

One-time10
  • Pack of 5× Rescue Teams.$0.99
  • Unlock all HD Levels$0.99
  • Classic levels$0.99
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  • Unlock "Time Machine" levels!$0.99
  • Unlock "10th Anniversary" levels!$0.99
  • Three crashes per game.$1.99
  • Classic levels and no ads$2.99
  • Pack of 20× Rescue Teams.$2.99
  • No Ads.$2.99
  • Pack of 50× Rescue Teams.$4.99
None

C172 Checklists

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is C172 Checklists free?
C172 Checklists costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or C172 Checklists?
Planes Control! and C172 Checklists are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6.8K and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Planes Control! or C172 Checklists have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; C172 Checklists does not.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or C172 Checklists?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and C172 Checklists every 2 months. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on September 27, 2026 and C172 Checklists on August 29, 2026.

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